The Contingencies of the Economy Changing Fast and the Socio Political Unpreparedness

 

1st Edition, unrevised.

At the link below you can watch a report that, although in English, the images speak for themselves.

The footage shows Indian manual laborers wearing equipment that collects data to be used for AI training, which will later feed into robot programs that will perform the same tasks.

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In many posts I have stated that I am not against progress, but against progress born of inept, shortsighted politics — stumbling forward, more interested in itself than in the consequences of a future we will live, but without the necessary social preparation.
Although I have already commented on such consequences, I remind you that social exclusion only reinforces the ranks of crime and sustains a Para‑state (parallel state) that challenges the hegemony of a country divided between viable and degrading solutions.

The “system,” through the State and free enterprise — that is, through politicians intelligent and sensitive to the near future, accompanied by entrepreneurs with the same vision — should already be building a program of social relocation and adaptation through education, to begin providing real solutions for the reallocation of manual workers who, over time, will become irrelevant.

The process is slow, and therefore needs to be started as soon as possible.

The type of education I refer to here is not theoretical, demanding from the worker the usual approach with things he will never use, but an education with the practical sense of the minimum necessary that the worker will need to remain useful to the economy, and not a social burden.
Jobs will need to be redesigned to offer relocation alternatives, and the entire economy will need to follow a path as profitable as it is social.

This education that prepares the manual worker should be focused on scenarios that contemplate the interaction between robots and humans and their alternatives, and new means of production, adding to this an adjacent effort of awareness in schools and companies.
The old saying that “crime doesn’t pay” needs to reflect reality.

If none of this begins to happen quickly across all societies, through a joint effort among them, the social crisis will be global.

In these terms, crime may measure forces against the institution of the State.
After all, destroying and killing is relatively much easier than building and saving, and requires relatively little education.

And those who do not belong to crime will be under circumstances so adverse, so stripped of their human values, that their votes will make no sense to the democracies still in place.

Democracy sickens along with society, because it is born from it.